Amnesties international
Tax dodgers in India and Indonesia have been given a chance to come clean
INDIA and Indonesia share a problem: too little tax revenue. Of the 3.8% of India’s 1.3 billion people whose incomes are logged by the tax authorities, barely one-quarter cross the tax threshold. The share of Indians who declare annual incomes of more than 1m rupees (about $15,000) is just 0.1%. Among Indonesia’s 255m citizens, 27m are registered taxpayers. But in 2014 only 900,000 of them filed a return.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Amnesties international”
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